Three Cunard Line Queens meet in New York Harbor

Cunard Line’s three luxury cruise ships — Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and the new Queen Elizabeth — will meet in New York Harbor for a celebration, a Cunard Royal Rendezvous.

TELL ME MORE: Cunard’s first Royal Rendezvous in New York was in 2008, when its fleet met for the first and only time in the city as the QE2 retired in November of that year.

DETAILS: Queen Mary 2 will depart from Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, while Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth will depart from the Manhattan Cruise Terminal — Pier 90 and Pier 88, all at 6 p.m. All three Queens will rendezvous at the Statue of Liberty for a fireworks celebration at 6:45 p.m.

VIEWING LOCATIONS: Battery Park (on the southern shoreline of Manhattan), Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, The Esplanade (running the entire length of Battery Park City, along the Hudson River from Stuyvesant High School on the north end all the way south to Battery Park) and Hudson River Park.